Star Wars thread Episode II *Spoilers*

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He becomes Billy Dee Williams.
 
Crow said:
Never watched Solo, so I can't comment. But if they gayed up Billy Dee Williams, I'm against it. I reject and rebuke it.
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I wouldn't even call it gay. It was like this ultra feminine persona but might have nailed Emilia Clarke's character but also spent the whole film flirting/bickering with a robot. It was just weird and distracting and I never want to see Donald Glover play Lando again.
 
Chris_77 said:
I wouldn't even call it gay. It was like this ultra feminine persona but might have nailed Emilia Clarke's character but also spent the whole film flirting/bickering with a robot. It was just weird and distracting and I never want to see Donald Glover play Lando again.
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Reject. Rebuke.
 
Chris_77 said:
They could have been, I guess it might have crossed my mind at the time but not something stood out enough to stick in my mind after the fact (I think the Lando weirdness was probably more overt lol). But I think that speaks to my point, they could have been gay... it's just not something we needed to know to enjoy the story or their relationship dynamic. And if they were, it was done in a natural way that didn't seem like Disney trying to score woke points.
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I don't think there was any sort of gay relationship between the two, more of a spiritual brothers sort of thing. Baze and Chirrut were both Guardians of the Whills (Yay, Wookiepedia for background info. I didn't know Baze was a Guardian.), but Baze lost his faith in the Force, but kept his friendship with Chirrut and became his protector at times.
 
Chris_77 said:
I wouldn't even call it gay. It was like this ultra feminine persona but might have nailed Emilia Clarke's character but also spent the whole film flirting/bickering with a robot. It was just weird and distracting and I never want to see Donald Glover play Lando again.
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Glover had Lando down to a T, but the story they built for him was weird as hell. In this story, he had a fetish for droids.
 
YodasBeast said:
Glover had Lando down to a T, but the story they built for him was weird as hell. In this story, he had a fetish for droids.
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What's your baseline for "to a T"? Certainly not the Billy Dee version. Billy played him exactly like the suave, player gangster architype of the era. The Solo writer wrote the character to be sexually ambiguous by design but added in the robot thing to make it really weird.

“Yes,” when asked if Lando was pansexual. “I mean, I would have loved to have gotten a more explicitly LGBT character into this movie. I think it’s time, certainly, for that, and I love the fluidity ― sort of the spectrum of sexuality that Donald appeals to and that droids are a part of.”
 
Chris_77 said:
What's your baseline for "to a T"? Certainly not the Billy Dee version. Billy played him exactly like the suave, player gangster architype of the era. The Solo writer wrote the character to be sexually ambiguous by design but added in the robot thing to make it really weird.

“Yes,” when asked if Lando was pansexual. “I mean, I would have loved to have gotten a more explicitly LGBT character into this movie. I think it’s time, certainly, for that, and I love the fluidity ― sort of the spectrum of sexuality that Donald appeals to and that droids are a part of.”
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He was suave, smooth, a hustler, etc. Glover got the expressions, mannerisms, vocal inflections down and I believe he either worked with Billy Dee, or Billy Dee gave him advice on being Lando.
 
Crow said:


He's made a mint off the downfall of Star Wars.
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I think there is some truth to this quote:

"The Star Wars story was about a dad who lost his way and a son who didn't, and their reconciliation at the end. There is no other story and continuing it is kinda pointless.

The franchise caught 2 huge breaks: 1) Darth Vader, a great character who's rated as like the 3rd best movie villain of all time by surveys, and 2) Harrison Ford taking Han's role. Had neither happened the franchise would've been a fart in the wind."
 
Darkenblot said:
I think there is some truth to this quote:

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"The Star Wars story was about a dad who lost his way and a son who didn't, and their reconciliation at the end. There is no other story and continuing it is kinda pointless.

The franchise caught 2 huge breaks: 1) Darth Vader, a great character who's rated as like the 3rd best movie villain of all time by surveys, and 2) Harrison Ford taking Han's role. Had neither happened the franchise would've been a fart in the wind."
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John Williams also provided a monster score. His contribution to that franchise can’t be overstated
 


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